Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amid high worries about higher ed's value in the job market, work colleges offer lessons on integrating classroom learning with employment opportunities.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Much debate concerns Labour's position on fees - but what about maintenance? Jim Dickinson looks to the past for inspiration for the future The post Labour should go back to the future to find answers on maintenance appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Trying to root out “liberal indoctrination,” the education superintendent demanded regents identify how much money they devote to diversity programs.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Kate Cuthbert and Sue Lee ask if we need to rethink traditional course structures to prepare students for the contemporary workplace? The post How phenomenon-based learning could empower students. appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Students who started their college careers in 2020 did not get to experience a normal academic year or the regular campus life that they expected. Now, there is a new normal for students and higher education leaders.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We should admit that inclusion and other values are sometimes in tension. By Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder André de Loba for The Chronicle We should admit that inclusion and other values are sometimes in tension.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Staff flagged concerns with the WASC Senior College and University Commission’s review of UAGC’s recruiting and admissions.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The proposal isn’t dead yet, as another American Bar Association governing panel could unilaterally adopt policy changes.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Madeline Kripke assembled what may be the largest personal dictionary collection in the world. It is certainly the bawdiest. By Heidi Landecker Emon Hassan She had perhaps the largest personal dictionary collection in the world. It is certainly the most titillating.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Tania Tetlow, the leader of Fordham University, shares tips for navigating the complexities of speaking out as a college president.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On Jan. 8, after almost three years of shutting itself off from the rest of the world as part of the country’s heavy-handed “zero-COVID” policy, China opened its borders and scrapped quarantine requirements for inbound travelers. For college admission recruiters in the U.S. and around the world, this means a long-awaited recruitment trip to China could become a reality soon, possibly as early as spring.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Russia is continuing to appeal to African students through social media-driven recruitment campaigns, despite the recent death of a Zambian student fighting in its ranks against Ukraine. The country is marketed as the most ideal destination for medicine and health-related degree programs. Despite the backlash for the war and for recruiting imprisoned students to join the frontline, its Study in Russia body EduRussia has sponsored tens of social media posts aimed at undergraduate African stud

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: When Glynis Fitzgerald was named the College of Saint Mary’s first new president in 26 years last November, the Roman Catholic women’s college seemed to be set to continue the work of the outgoing president, who was widely credited with helping to grow enrollment and pull the Nebraska institution out of deep debt. Rick Jeffries, vice chair of the Saint Mary’s Board of Trustees, gushed about the selection of Fitzgerald on Twitter and described her as “a courageous,

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“You either love them or you hate them, but you cannot ignore them,” AIRC ‘s president said regarding the use of agents during a recent webinar. The discussion about the use of international recruitment agents, facilitated by The Chronicle ’s Karin Fischer, stakeholders from across the sector debated the benefits and setbacks of incorporating agents in international recruitment strategy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Category: Carpe Careers Dinuka Gunaratne and Punita Lumb provide strategies to help racially minoritized students replenish their social resource capital so as to navigate the challenges of grad school successfully. Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Show on Jobs site: Image Source: SDI Productions/E+/getty images Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Multiple Authors: Dinuka Gunaratne Punita Lumb Is this diversity newsletter?

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia has reached an initial agreement with a staff trade union after strike action put thousands of international students out of class. One of two faculty unions at CBU went on strike on January 27, causing most classes to be cancelled. The institution has a huge international enrolment, with two-thirds of its 5,900 students coming from overseas.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: State fiscal support for public higher education institutions is up 6.6 percent for fiscal year 2023, according to the latest report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. It’s the second year in a row that overall state funding for higher ed has risen significantly, according to Sophia Laderman, SHEEO’s associate vice president, who attributes the trend in part to state budget surpluses and federal stimulus funding.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you had a blank page and could start again as an institution, what would you do differently? This is the reality for the academic team at UA92. Having only opened in 2019, they have been cherishing the chance to shape a curriculum and recruitment strategy that challenges the norm. As the university academy prepared to welcome their latest intake of students, The PIE News decided to pay a visit to Manchester and find out more about what makes UA92 different.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: Preparing for life after graduation can be a daunting task for students, but Barnard College’s peer career advisers program offers friendly faces and advice from fellow students. For over a decade, students have worked alongside staff at the college’s career center to provide professional development help for the larger campus community, part of a long-standing institutional tradition.

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Title: THE CUPA-HR 2022 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey: Focus on Supervisors Authors: Melissa Fuesting and Jennifer Schneider Source: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) CUPA-HR has released a new report that provides insight into employee retention in the field of higher education. The report explores variables contributing to employee retention such as.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. But what if the syllabus were seen as a critical tool for student engagement and success and used as an opportunity to set the tone for a positive learning environment?

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Campus Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Dreamscape Immersive, which has partnered with Arizona State University (ASU) to expand its new $20 million Series A STEM education virtual reality (VR) program Dreamscape Learn, has brought on ed tech veteran Josh Reibel as CEO.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Eastern Washington University blocked a professor from using the university’s Twitter account for nearly a year because of his tweets critical of university spending on athletics, The Spokesman-Review reported. Larry Cebula, a history professor, was blocked. David Meany, director of communications and media relations, said Cebula’s tweets were defamatory.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last week I spent the morning with a group of colleagues, mostly from outside of academic affairs. I had reached out to folks in academic advising, student affairs, admissions, athletics, and career services (they’ve just moved to academic affairs) to help me think about how we might weave together some shared goals. There were just a few faculty members and the academic deans for this conversation, mostly because I wanted to expand my thinking and I needed this group’s help with thi

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken You’re in a leadership role on a campus that wants to do something you consider destructive, or ill-advised, or even illegal. What do you do? To some degree, it depends on your theory of your role.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

My friend and teacher Kenneth Fowler, who has died aged 88, was an eminent historian of the hundred years war, and a leading light in the teaching of history over more than three decades at Edinburgh University. Ken’s parents, Ronald and Ethel (nee McMahon), lived next door to the large grocer’s shop they kept at Clayton-le-Woods in Lancashire, and sent Ken and his older brother, David, later a successful businessman, to the local primary school, from where Ken went on to boarding school in Derb

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Keylin Perez recently became the first Latina to be named Miss Coppin State University, and the reaction at the historically Black university has not been good, The Baltimore Banner reported. She says she has experienced extensive cyberbullying from Black students. “I knew that it would happen when I first decided to run. I knew it might take this route.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There are many things we can teach through books and lectures but giving students highly realistic, “hands-on” experience through a virtual world isn’t one of them. But that future is coming very soon, and it will revolutionize K-12 and higher education. Another educational VR experience I recently had was at Stanford University in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab run by Jeremy Bailenson.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Enjoy this special 100th episode of the Innovating Together podcast where Inside Higher Ed co-founder Doug Lederman and University Innovation Alliance (UIA) CEO Bridget Burns will reflect on insights and lessons learned from the past two years of interviews with leaders across higher education, and Doug will turn the tables on Bridget to ask her a selection of fan-favorite questions VIEW PREVIOUS EPISODES >> Section: University Innovation Alliance Event's date: Monday, November 15, 20

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A professor at Purdue University was taken into custody in connection with drug-related accusations and allegedly propositioning women. Sergey Macheret, 65, was arrested Wednesday after the Lafayette Police Department’s weeks-long investigation into several complaints of a “ suspicious male approaching women ,” according to Indianapolis news station Fox 59.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

British Boarding Schools’ Network has introduced a new initiative for agent members that the organisation says will provide the UK boarding school sector with the “strongest agent vetting process” The “rigorous checks” new agent applicants face include three reference checks, Zoom interviews, along with further checks and requirements.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Frustrated by low wages and new laws limiting what they can teach — and buoyed by President Joe Biden’s pro-union bent — campus workers across the country are moving with new urgency to organize. A historic strike at the University of California kicked things off in November. And the six-week standoff among 48,000 campus workers, a broader surge in labor strikes across industries, a depleted pandemic workforce and a friendlier atmosphere in Washington has culminated in a wave of uprisings.

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Higher Education Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Title: Postdoctoral Barriers to Success Source: National Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral scholars, commonly referred to as “postdocs,” are relied on to fulfill over 70,000 critical research and scientific positions across academia, government, and industry in the U.S. In exchange for providing cutting-edge expertise and skills, postdocs are promised “mentored training” to make them more competitive and.

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Leader of Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In episode 153 of the Leader of Learning Podcast, Dr. Dan Kreiness (@dr_kreiness) interviews William”Coach” Jeffery (@CoachJeffery), principal at Columbia High School in Columbia-Brazoria ISD, curator and author of educational content with Flipboard, and executive producer and host for the “I Want To Speak To The Principal” and “Flipboard EDU” podcasts.

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Caylor Solutions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Good leadership is essential. It makes the difference between thriving and floundering institutions. But it is also difficult and rare. Fortunately, it is a skill that can be honed. Here are some key aspects of leadership to grow in. I’ll start with a confession. The leadership principles we’ll look at in this article aren’t specific […] The post Leadership Principles for Higher Ed Marketing and Enrollment appeared first on Caylor Solutions.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cutting funding to Georgia’s public colleges and universities is not the solution. That’s what education leaders told lawmakers planning this year’s budget. "That's really going to hurt our smaller institutions and those that are declining in enrollment", says Georgia Public University leader. For the second year in a row, enrollment in Georgia's public college system has dropped.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image: Picture this: A student is working diligently in a class, understanding and engaging with the material—but not turning in assignments. The student’s rationale: “I’m never going to be good at time management.” It’s a story that educators have heard before—students expressing they’re stuck or caught in a fixed mind-set.

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